Bowling Egyptian Style...

[kartoffel]

Wow. At first I thought that he just plowed thru them, but it looks like he actually stops and starts to get surrounded and then he floors it. I guess the first rioter you hit will get you ripped to pieces, the other 19 are free.

Guess it just shows that when shit starts to get crazy, crazy shit happens.

Prayers for those injuried and prayers for the driver- I assume he is just doing his job.

Another way to look at it, the driver knocked through the first group and then paused to give the rest of the crowd a chance to GTFO. When they failed to make a hole, he got on the gas a 2nd time.

[jklaughrey]

I see nothing wrong with the drivers' actions. Those rioter's knew they would suffer consequences for their actions at some point. Being run down by a vehicle is just part of the game. Driver did his job, and did it well. I would buy him a beer if I was a passenger in the vehicle.

[RogerinTPA]

That was awesome!

[Business_Casual]

If by "doing his job" you mean being the arm of a violent and blood thristy dictatorship, then I agree.

If you mean violent and blood thirsty in the sense that they have kept the peace with Israel and prevented a coptic blood-letting on a vast scale by a mullah-led dictatorship, as well as helped us interrogate jihadis off-shore, then yes.

If you mean it in some college freshman survey class sense, where you don't understand the situation and have never been to Eqypt, then no.

B_C

[Heartland Hawk]

I see nothing wrong with the drivers' actions. Those rioter's knew they would suffer consequences for their actions at some point. Being run down by a vehicle is just part of the game. Driver did his job, and did it well. I would buy him a beer if I was a passenger in the vehicle.

This.

[kal]

If you mean violent and blood thirsty in the sense that they have kept the peace with Israel and prevented a coptic blood-letting on a vast scale by a mullah-led dictatorship, as well as helped us interrogate jihadis off-shore, then yes.

I couldn't care less about this non sense.

The reality is, that middle eastern governments treat their people like shit. So when I see a middle eastern government vehicle running over civilians that are protesting in a rage due to the conditions of their country, I automatically assume the government is at fault and is trying to suppress dissent the only way they know how, with violence.

[GermanSynergy]

It's not nonsense, it's a fact. Egypt, for all of it's faults, will be infinitely worse off under an Islamist theocracy than under what they have now.

I couldn't care less about this non sense.

The reality is, that middle eastern governments treat their people like shit. So when I see a middle eastern government vehicle running over civilians that are protesting in a rage due to the conditions of their country, I automatically assume the government is at fault and is trying to suppress dissent the only way they know how, with violence.

[Heartland Hawk]

I agree. If the MB even get a slight say in the government there, it will destabilize (relatively) the whole region even more.

[Business_Casual]

I couldn't care less about this non sense.

The reality is, that middle eastern governments treat their people like shit. So when I see a middle eastern government vehicle running over civilians that are protesting in a rage due to the conditions of their country, I automatically assume the government is at fault and is trying to suppress dissent the only way they know how, with violence.

You'll care about it when gas is $10 a gallon because the MB cut off the Suez Canal and there's no food in the Safeway because there's no fuel to deliver it to the stores. You'll care about it when world markets collapse in the face of a nuked Tel Aviv.

These people are savages and would cut your throat just as quickly as they would cut Mr Mubarak's. There will be no "democracy" in Egypt, you will just suceed in replacing stable oppression with maniac of zealots who want the destruction of our way of life. What does it take to get through to people? The jihadis want to enslave you in the name of their religion. They don't want peaceful representative democracy with clean streets and bus trips to the pyramids, FFS.

B_C

[Belmont31R]

I couldn't care less about this non sense.

The reality is, that middle eastern governments treat their people like shit. So when I see a middle eastern government vehicle running over civilians that are protesting in a rage due to the conditions of their country, I automatically assume the government is at fault and is trying to suppress dissent the only way they know how, with violence.

Thats because middle easterners are more or less savages with little to no regard for human life. They are never going to have a western style government, and nothing like we have in the US. A country that tried that would get toppled quickly. Those people need a firm fist from above to keep them in line.


Look at what happened to Afghanistan. People don't realize there used to be a big western presence there. We built their canals and infastructure. The taliban took over, and turned the UN built soccer stadium into an execution venue. Especially the rural areas are still living like they were hundreds of years ago. They stone people, practice female circumcision, turn little boys into sex slaves, and are just generally horrible people.


What I see here is Mubarak was duly elected, and until he is legally put out of office he is still the president. How would Obama like it if in response to the Tea Party protests British PM Cameron called him up and told him to get out of office? Do you think Obama would ever entertain the idea of leaving office due to protests?


Those types of protests would never fly here. Look at how we treat G20 type protests...Egypt is actually handling it a lot better than what our government does here.


With that said if a bunch of animals want to crowd around a vehicle, pelt it with rocks, and generally come across as being very threatening then people have a right to do what they need to. In this case it was getting the **** out as quickly as possible. Just happened to be a bunch of muslim animals in the way. Too bad. Those people don't care about human life to begin with so a bunch of people getting pancaked doesn't really ring any sorry bells with me. Imagine if that crowd had plucked those people out of the van. They wouldn't have made it...